Les Lamentations de Jérémie

Chapître 5

1

 Remember,³ O LORD, what is come upon us: consider,⁵⁴ and behold³ our reproach.

2

Our inheritance is turned⁸ to strangers,⁵ our houses to aliens.

3

We are orphans and fatherless, ¹ our mothers [are] as widows.

4

We have drunken¹ our water for money; our wood is sold^{4 4242} unto us.

5

Our necks [are] under persecution:⁸ we labour,¹ [and] have no rest.⁹⁰

6

We have given¹ the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied² with bread.

7

Our fathers have sinned,¹ [and are] not; and we have borne¹ their iniquities.

8

 Servants have ruled¹ over us: [there is] none that doth deliver⁶ [us] out of their hand.

9

We gat⁵⁵ our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

10

Our skin was black⁸ like an oven because of the terrible famine.

11

They ravished¹⁴ the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.

12

 Princes are hanged up⁸ by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.⁸

13

They took¹ the young men to grind, and the children fell¹ under the wood.

14

The elders have ceased¹ from the gate, the young men from their musick.

15

The joy of our heart is ceased;¹ our dance is turned⁸ into mourning.

16

The crown is fallen¹ [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!¹

17

For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.¹

18

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,¹ the foxes walk¹⁴ upon it.

19

Thou, O LORD, remainest⁴ for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

20

Wherefore dost thou forget⁴ us for ever, [and] forsake⁴ us so long time?

21

 Turn⁵⁴ thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;⁴ renew¹⁶ our days as of old.

22

But thou hast utterly² rejected¹ us; thou art very wroth¹ against us.